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2018 Prediction Wrap Up

It’s been another so-so year in the predictions biz, which puts me way ahead of virtually any cable TV pundit. So let’s review my predictions shall we?

Financing will be secured for a southern border wall and construction will begin.

I really held out hope that this would come true and it did provide just about the only real end-of-the year news drama, but no, no cigar and no wall, as I begin to suspect would be the case when I wrote this.

The Mueller investigation will officially wrap up before the fall midterm elections.

This didn’t happen either. Is it possible that Mueller really thinks there is Russian collusion, and if he just digs deep enough, he’s going to find it? If so…what an idiot. In any case, that invalidates my third prediction…

Mueller’s Investigation will not show any collusion between Trump or the Trump campaign and Russia to “hack” the election. Derp.

Finally, I get one right: The Republicans will keep control of the Senate after the 2018 elections. But then…

The Republicans will keep control of the House after the 2018 elections. So that’s another wrong one, but at least I’m clearer on why I got this wrong. But as I wrote after the mid-terms, I totally underestimated

The price of Bitcoin will crash in 2018. On January 1, 2018, the price was $14,560.84, and on December 31st, it was $3876.60. That sounds like the bubble burst to me.

At least 3 terrorist attacks in Western Europe with double digit casualties (Injuries and or deaths). Although I got this one wrong, it’s happy news that I got this wrong. Western European terrorism has continued to decline, with only 8 deaths from terrorism in Western Europe.

Kim Jong-un will still be the supreme head honcho of North Korea throughout 2018. This seems ridiculous now but at the beginning of the year all of the “smartest people” thought there was a real possibility that Kim would be overthrown.

US Housing prices will continue to steadily increase throughout the year. Although the latest data I can find only goes through October, housing continues to show a steady increase.

There will be an infrastructure bill that will pass with some Democratic votes. Not even close.

So out of 10 predictions, I got 6 of them wrong, giving me a failing grade of 40%. Not great in my own terms, but still better than Bill Kristol or any cable TV pundit.